Tax Roll
Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically
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Fragments of a tax roll from Karanis in the Arsinoite nome recording daily payments of money taxes, including the guard tax and the embankment tax, by named villagers with their mothers' names. Entries are grouped by day with daily totals, dated by related records to AD 173-174.
These are detached fragments belonging to a larger Karanis tax roll. The sign rendered 'cross-reference' (χ) is thought to refer to a page in another, geographically arranged register of poll-tax payers; its exact reading with the following figures is uncertain.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Fragments of No. 225). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
Tax register, recording the daily collection of money taxes in the village of Karanis; the name of each tax-payer paying the poll-tax is cross-referenced with a page of another register, where taxpayers were listed geographically
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